The risks of seizure were brought to light by game informer editor liana Ruppert. The 1.04 hotfix is now live on PlayStation consoles and PC.

During these sequences, a device is placed in front of your character’s eyes. The effect is similar to what actual neurologists do to trigger seizures. Ruppert, who reported that she suffered an epileptic episode when she played the game.

The flashing effect during braindances has been’smoothed out and the flashes reduced in frequency and magnitude’. Ruppert said she worked with the studio this week to help test the fix.

I’ve been staying off of socials today but I am so thrilled to see this change!. I think this will help many epileptics and non-epileptics feel safer in # cyberpunk2077.

The update had warned streamers to turn off all music in the game on Thursday as a temporary workaround. Some of the songs would play even when a player had toggled a setting to disable copyrighted music from playing.

The game has already earned back the total costs of development and marketing through digital pre-orders. The game had more than eight million preorders.